Author: John Hawkins

Jim Bunning’s Finest Hour In The Senate And If Democrats Don’t Like It, “Tough Sh*t”

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Jim Bunning’s not running for reelection this year. His poll numbers were terrible, he couldn’t raise any money, and he was pressured into not running again, lest he lose a seat the GOP could easily retain. Honestly, it was the right call. However, it’s still a shame because Jim Bunning had his finest moment as […]

 

Charlie Crist On Health Care: You Trust This Guy? Do You Trust The GOP?

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Too often during the Bush years, Republicans became enamored with the idea of compromising for compromise’s sake. Good idea, bad idea, it really didn’t matter because it wasn’t about doing what was right for the country, looking out for their constituents, or even helping the Republican Party. No, no, to the contrary, as long as […]

 

Respect The Dead & Protect The Living: Kill Tilikum The Killer Whale

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Unless you’re a nut, like the people at PETA, people come before animals. And when we’re talking about an ORCA that has turned into a serial killer, it needs to be put down or at least released in the wild: A SeaWorld Orlando animal trainer died Wednesday from “multiple traumatic injuries and drowning” after a […]

 

What Should Be A Career Ending Health Care Lie For Harry Reid

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In more rational times, Harry Reid’s egregious lie about reconciliation would end his political career. What lie, you ask? Actually, come to think of it, you’re probably thinking something more along the lines of, “Which lie?” This lie: In case you don’t want to watch the video, it’s a cranky Harry Reid, at the health […]

 

McCain And I Agree? On New Regulations, No Less? The Government Should Regulate Supplements.

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One of the great ironies of heavily over-regulated, overlawyered, and over-nannied society is that the makers of dietary supplements are allowed to make wild, completely unsupportable claims about their products while the government sits around with their thumbs up their behinds. I’m not going to sit here and tell you that people selling Yohimbe and […]

 

Explaining The Democratic Health Care Strategery And Why It’s Going To Fail

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I’ve heard a lot of confusion about what the Democrats are trying to do on healthcare and the chances of it passing; so I wanted to do a brief, easy-to-understand-as-possible post to explain where we’re at in the process. The Democrats have passed a bill through the House and through the Senate, but they’re different […]

 

Glenn Beck’s CPAC Speech: Tiger Woods And The Republican Party

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This was my favorite part of Glenn Beck’s speech at CPAC. I didn’t hear it being widely discussed; so I wanted to get it out there: Now, the Tiger Woods’ apology note: Tiger Woods — Tiger Woods said this — (reading) I knew my actions were wrong. Wouldn’t it be great to hear this from […]

 

Gay Conservative Groups Like GOProud Should Be Welcomed In The Republican Party

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GOProud’s co-sponsorship of CPAC was controversial in some quarters right from the beginning. Liberty University pulled out because GOProud was also allowed to be a co-sponor of CPAC. At the actual event, some guy named Ryan Sorba trashed GOProud and got boo’d off the stage as a result: Since then, there have continued to be […]

 

I Get Emails: Don’t Let People Get Away With Comparing Illegals To Immigrants

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One of the things the open borders and amnesty crowd has tried to do again and again is blur the line between immigrants who filled out their paperwork, paid their dues, and patiently waited in line to come to this country — and illegals who just waltzed right in over the border. That’s not just […]

 

John Boehner’s Press Guy Humiliates The White House On Health Care

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Folks, very rarely do I post press releases/emails from political operatives, but this one that I received today from Michael Steel, John Boehner’s press secretary, was so full of awesome that it just had to go up. Enjoy! Folks — Yesterday, after Press Secretary Robert Gibbs offered to post the Republican health care plan on […]

 

Ron Paul Won CPAC’s Presidential Straw Poll: What Does It Mean?

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There has been a lot of talk about Ron Paul’s straw poll win at CPAC. Here’s how it broke down: Ron Paul 31% Mitt Romney 22% Sarah Palin 7% Tim Pawlenty 6% Mike Pence 5% Newt Gingrich 4% Mike Huckabee 4% Mitch Daniels 2% John Thune 2% Rick Santorum 2% Haley Barbour 1% First off, […]

 

Glenn Beck Vs. Limbaugh and Bennett On The Republican Party. I’m With Beck On This One.

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I caught Glenn Beck’s speech at CPAC live and enjoyed it immensely. However, amongst other bloggers, the reviews were decidedly mixed. No big deal — to each his own. But, there’s one particular criticism that has been aimed at Beck’s speech that I think is off the mark. First off, here’s what Beck said about […]

 

5 Reasons Illegal Immigrants Shouldn’t Be Given American Citizenship

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Over the last few months most conservatives have quite naturally been distracted by Barack Obama’s frightening incompetence, his elephantine spending, and his zealous attempts to swallow as much of the private sector as the government beast can stuff down its gaping maw. But while the cat’s away, the mice will play. The little feet you […]

 

The CPAC 2010 Experience (35 Pics): Day 2

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Early on in the day Pamela Gellar’s “Jihad: The Political Third Rail” event was high on my list of priorities. It featured : “Steve Coughlin, Wafa Sultan, Allen West, Simon Deng, Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, & Robert Spencer.” Unfortunately, I was pressed for time and the event was packed. Every seat was filled and there were maybe 50 […]

 

The CPAC 2010 Experience (35 Pics): Day 3

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Over the course of the week, we had a number of big names come by bloggers’ row. Among others, they included Tim Pawlenty, Chuck Devore, Steve Poizner, Mike Pence, and Andrew Breitbart. Breitbart hung around to talk the most and he had a very good CPAC. He got into this confrontation with some liberal jackass. […]

 

CPAC

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CPAC is this week and I’ll be covering the event for PJ TV. Other RWN bloggers including Melissa Clouthier, Sharon Soon, Kathleen McKinley, & Tabitha Hale will also be at the event. So, while we’re gone, our posting may be a little spotty — but, RWN’s week-end bloggers should be taking up the slack. But […]

 

I Agree With…..Bob Herbert? America’s Infrastructure Problems

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Seldom does this happen, but I do have to say, Bob Herbert is right about this: These kinds of problems are not peculiar to Pennsylvania. New Orleans was lost for want of an adequate system of levees and floodwalls. Lawrence Summers, President Obama’s chief economic adviser, tells us that 75 percent of America’s public schools […]

 

Five Wacky Ways Libs Want To Fight Non-Existent Global Warming

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As Americans have come to realize that the “science” behind global warming seems to mainly consist of fudging data and making doomsday prophecies in return for grant money, the wheels have started to come off Al Gore’s hobby horse. Of course, conservatives have not been shocked by this turn of events. That’s because unlike far […]

 

Evan Bayh And Insert Some Clever Quip About Rats And Sinking Ships Here

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Apocalypse 2010 is continuing for the Democrats as Evan Bayh has now announced his retirement. Fox News is reporting that Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) will retire in 2010, dealing a blow to Democrats’ electoral prospects for the upcoming midterms. The Democratic retirement wave has been limited mostly to the House (where more Republicans have actually […]

 

Interviewing Thomas Sowell On Intellectualism

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Thomas Sowell’s new book is called, Intellectuals and Society and I was pleased to have the opportunity to interview him about the book late last week. What follows is a slightly edited transcript of our conversation. Enjoy! All right, and right off the bat let me ask you about a quote that showed up at […]

 

Black Children Are An Endangered Species

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In 1939 (Margaret) Sanger created the previously mentioned “Negro Project,” which aimed to get blacks to adopt birth control. Through the Birth Control Federation, she hired black ministers (including the Reverend Adam Clayton Powell Sr.), doctors, and other leaders to help pare down the supposedly surplus black population. The project’s racist intent is beyond doubt. […]

 

Polling Conservative Bloggers On Gay Marriage, Impeachment, Birtherism, Secession, And Health Care

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Daily Kos/Research 2000 recently did a controversial poll of self-identified Republicans. The poll results were treated as suspect mainly because some controversial questions were asked and the results featured what many conservatives perceived as an unusually high percentage of flaky answers. So, I thought it might be interesting to ask some of the Kos/Research 2000 […]